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The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is perhaps best known for his semiotics (or 'theory of signs'). For Peirce, meaning arises through the formation of relationships between the elements of a sign, providing a spectrum of infinitely nuanced kinds of meaning. The elements of a sign, according to Peirce, are the sign itself (i.e. its material form, also referred to as the 'sign-vehicle', in order to avoid confusion); the object that it signifies (regardless of whether this is abstract, hypothetical, or something available to perception); and the interpretant.
It is this latter element that gives Peirce's theory its uniqueness and strength. The interpretant is the effect upon a person by the object via the sign. If this sounds tautological, to a certain extent it is. Indeed, Peirce points out that the interpretant itself is actually another sign, with its very own object and (potentially) a subsequent interpretant. This explains why one thought always tends to lead to yet another. To give a more concrete example, it also describes how a strange shape in the sky can act as a sign-vehicle, creating an interpretant in a witness in the form of a shout of 'Aliens!', which in turn – as a new sign-vehicle in itself – causes everyone in the street to look upwards, etc., etc. Peirce's semiotics enables us to see that meaning is an indeterminate, potentially endless process. What is also crucial here, however, is the notion of signs having effects, of meaning as an embodiment, a manifestation, a change wrought upon someone by their coming into some type of relationship with a sign-vehicle.
Peirce's theory is an important contribution to the history of ideas. I thoroughly recommend it. But I am about to mix it up with other models and riff off of it something rotten, and I would not wish anyone to confuse what follows with anything that Peirce himself wrote.
Recently, the Integral philosopher Ken Wilber has turned his mind to what he calls 'Integral Semiotics' (Wilber, 2013). This is an interesting project that situates meaning itself within Wilber's model of all phenomena, that gloriously baggy and inclusive amalgamation of quadrants, stages, states, levels and lines. Although Wilber seems to accomplish his stated task of describing the 'Kosmic address' of many different types of signs and referents, it seemed to me that all the types of signs he discusses are signs in the same way, even though they occupy different positions within his model and point to different objects.
By combining Peirce's theory of the sign with Wilber's model of the states of human consciousness, it seems possible to formulate and situate not simply a range of different signs and referents, a range of different meanings, but also a range of fundamentally different processes by which meaning is made.
The first three of these are common in everyday cognition, and are those most frequently described in the works of Peirce himself.
First, we have the simplest form of sign, which Peirce named an icon. The icon signifies its object by virtue of the fact that it appears in some respect the same as its object. For example, a portrait signifies its subject to the extent that it visually resembles its subject. Because icons are so close in their perceptual manifestation to their object, they are perilously close to literalism. For instance, a gesture we might make to signify 'milking a cow' is likely to be almost the same as actually milking a cow; or the sound of a peacock that we might imitate in order to signify 'peacock' might be accurate enough to be virtually indistinguishable from the sound of the peacock itself. (As these examples suggest, not all icons are visual.)
The icon is so simple that it occurs spontaneously and prolifically in nature. There are many instances of plants or animals making use of certain colours, shapes or sounds to pass themselves off as something other than what they are. By looking or sounding or smelling like something else, they create an effect upon other animals as if that something else were actually present. For example: those yellow and black-striped midges, which look like wasps, but are actually harmless. This colouring may be unwilled or unconscious on the midge's part, but it has nevertheless effected change upon the world through an appearance that creates the impression of the immediate presence of the thing initiated by the appearance. Example: someone scared of wasps ends up running away instead from a midge.
Peirce's second type of sign is the index, which is slightly more sophisticated in that it signifies not what is immediately present, but what may be elsewhere, or which has not yet come to be. The classic example of an index are footprints in the sand, indicating the presence of another person on the desert island. The footprints do not look like the person; they do not resemble the person in any way. An index is, instead, an existential marker. In the absence of the object itself, the index signifies its presence, nevertheless, elsewhere in space or time. An arrow on a motorway sign is another classic index, signifying that although the turning is not here, nevertheless it exists further down the road.
Indices, too, are simple enough to arise in nature. Causality is often sufficient to lay down indices. For example, back in my schooldays, we all knew that a cirque or morraine is a sure index of the passage of a glacier in the distant past. It requires even less expertise to recognise a large thundercloud as a future-oriented index to a storm that is not here now, but will be soon.
Signs take a quantum leap at Peirce's next stage, the symbol. These do not arise in nature, but seem to be associated with consciousness. Imagine if the only signs at our disposal were things that resembled their objects, or things that pointed to where or when their objects were. If that were the case, we would not be able to imagine it being a case – or be able to imagine anything very much at all.
The most prevalent instance of a symbol is the word. A word looks nothing like its object (except for the word 'word', which does indeed look identical to a word). And a word has no causal or existential connection with its object (unless we lend credence to the superstitious saying, 'Speak of the Devil and he will appear').
Earlier, we mentioned Peirce's notion of the interpretant – the effect of the sign upon the person who encounters it. In the case of the icon, the effect is the impact of something perceptually similar to the object. In the case of the index, the effect is the impact of an existential trace of the object. In the case of the symbol, however, the effect is the impact of culture: the influence within us of a consensus that the sign-vehicle refers to the object. In other words, a symbol points to its object because we know that is what it points to. We know, because we have been taught.
These three varieties of sign are Peirce's fundamental types, but they equip us with some profound and powerful ideas. Yet it is important not to over-simplify this model, because 'pure' examples of these types of signs are actually quite elusive. Take the arrow by the roadside, for instance. Although footprints and thunderclouds may arise in nature, arrows do not. It is only a human convention that decrees that arrows signify motion in a particular direction. In other words, many of our so-called 'indices' actually have a distinct aroma of 'symbol' wafting from them. Likewise, the so-called 'icons' on our computer desktops. Sure, they are a visual representation of their object, but that object is something quite abstract, so it is actually a symbol doing most of the icon's work.
Signs occur in nature – or rather we can read as signs certain processes within nature. Some might argue, for instance, that DNA works as a kind of naturally occurring symbol, but – in my opinion – this is pushing the idea too far. As soon as we reach the threshold of a symbol, it seems there has to be a mind involved. Activity on a physical level, no matter how complex, will not fit the bill. Living organisms can evolve to resemble other things, and physical process can put down traces of themselves – both of these without needing anyone to be around to recognise them as such – but for us to describe these processes as constituting an 'icon' or 'index' then there has to be a mind to which this analogy occurs. To see a tiger's tracks, or the red colouring of an insect, yet to think 'this is a sign', is a symbolic process. In order for any kind of symbol to get off the ground, there needs to be a mind in which the sign-vehicle ('tiger track', 'red marking') and its object (the concept of 'icon' or 'index') can be brought into conjunction. A symbol has an effect only where there is a mind.
I am purposely avoiding the idea that it needs to be a human mind, because it seems possible to teach animals and to program machines to recognise and use symbols. Research with chimpanzees, bonobos, dolphins and other species, suggests that some non-humans are capable of understanding and using symbols. What is less clear, however, is whether animals are capable of the creative use of signs that comes so naturally to humans even in early childhood.
Peirce regarded meaning primarily in terms of its effect, so it might have seemed to him justified to regard a computer as a symbol-using entity, because of the way the machine's software can change in response to the contingencies it has been programmed to recognise. But again, the symbolic inventiveness that comes naturally to humans, giving us notions such as 'humour', 'lucidity' or 'style', still seems very challenging to replicate in a cybernetic context.
We cannot rule out revolutionary breakthroughs in computer science and animal linguistics, but we might still harbour an impression that signs – symbols, especially – demarcate an arena that is peculiarly human. The home we make for ourselves on this planet, in which we feel uniquely comfortable, is a world furnished largely with signs.
Signs and the growth of the psyche
A working definition of mind that I find useful is 'that which connects us to our experience'. It is a definition put to use quite frequently in the field of psychoanalysis. Freud was the first to suggest that trauma is what happens when extreme experiences impact upon us, without us having the necessary mental equipment to process them (Freud, 1920: 275). An experience the mind is unable to represent simply tends to re-occur in the same form, over and over. Post-traumatic stress disorder might be conceived of as the re-enactment in the body of experiences the mind has failed to contain. To the extent we have a sense of owning and understanding our experience, the mind has processed the experience into thoughts, feelings, memories, knowledge or ideas. A damaged or undeveloped mind is one that lacks this capacity. On the other hand, as Michael Eigen suggests (paraphrasing Wilfred Bion), 'a central task of humankind is to grow a psyche capable of sustaining the evolution of new places of interaction of diverse terms of experience' (Eigen, 2005: 58). In other words, the most healthy and developed mind is the one that is capable of making all sorts of links with experience in as many different registers as possible.
We saw earlier how icons and indices are types of sign with precursors in the natural world. A symbol, however, possess no perceptual or causal linkage between its sign-vehicle and its object. It stands for something only because there is a cultural convention that that is what it stands for. The only entity currently known to be capable of linking an experience to an idea through a cultural convention, is the human mind. Once we leave behind the domain of 'natural' icons and indices for the realm of the symbol, we have entered the mental realm. It is now no longer the material configuration of the sign-vehicle, nor its existential relationship to the object, which determines exclusively the process through which meaning arises. At this level onwards it is the operations of the mind that determine how meaning is produced. The function of the mind is to link experiences to awareness by building new structures to contain them – words, perceptual images, memories, thoughts, etc. The more developed the mind, the greater its repertoire of structures, and the greater its awareness of these as structures, and of its own activities as a process.
This last point addresses a difficulty in defining the mind as that which represents or links experiences. Who or what does it represent them for and to? It is in response to this conundrum that Buddhist psychology distinguishes itself from the Western view, and regards mind simply as a sense (the sense that enables us to discern 'inner' processes, such as feelings, thoughts, etc.) rather than as an irrefutable subject, the Cartesian ego, to whom our experience is offered.
The sense of being someone, the sense of owning or mastering our experience and the representations thrown up by 'our' mind, is itself simply another one of those structures the mind uses to link with and process experience. The impression that 'this right now' is 'something happening to someone' is a structure with immense utility as a survival mechanism, thrown up by the mind in response to experience, perhaps even acquired innately through blind Darwinian selection processes.
Despite appearances to the contrary, occasioned by poor levels of understanding both within and between science and religion, Darwinian selection and the teachings of the world's great spiritual traditions are capable of sitting happily side-by-side. The practices of esoteric traditions – such as meditation, prayer, the cultivation of compassion and selflessness, etc. – were specifically designed to expose the sense of self as a mental structure (a notion that science has little argument with), and to open the way to transpersonal states of consciousness.
These are experiences that arise when 'the sense of self as a mental structure' ceases to be an idea (which is itself an instance of a mental structure) but becomes instead a direct, lived experience. A useful analogy is the way that many of us reach a point when losing our virginity ceases to be an idea and becomes a direct experience. Our ideas may have described or prepared us for this experience, but otherwise they will bear little comparison. When transpersonal experiences arise, the mind will most likely offer up further mental structures to represent these experiences. The transpersonal experience is integrated by the mind's creation of a structure to link it with. At first, such experiences may seem singular and outlandish. With time and repetition, they tend to settle into recognisable registers. These form the basis for new modes of apprehending experience, new ways of making meaning from the reality in which the mind finds itself, a reality in which it grows towards recognising its own processes as processes, rather than as the possession of a self somehow apart from experience.
I would suggest that the first of these transpersonal registers is the vision. It is similar to the symbol, but differs in a crucial respect. Whereas a symbol allows linkage of a sign-vehicle to its object through cultural convention, the vision invents a convention of its own.
The means of inventing a convention may vary. Usually, some form of imaginative activity will be involved. Fundamentally, a visionary uses his or her imagination to link concepts in novel or different ways from the consensus. In computer science, for example, the inventors of the graphical user interface are now lauded as 'visionaries'. What they accomplished was a work of imagination, conceiving new metaphors that could be applied to communicating with computers. They replaced the previous idea of 'commanding' the computer with a new metaphor of a desktop-like 'space', on which data – represented as 'objects' – could be picked up, moved around and worked upon.
Another example of a vision, from the field of art, is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, the infamous signed urinal banned from the exhibition to which he submitted it in 1917. It is visionary because Fountain left behind the idea of art as artefact and opened up a new arena in which found objects, concepts, or the context of an object could all be understood as art. Formerly the consensus was that art consisted of objects made by trained artists. But to understand what Fountain signifies, as a work of art, then the consensus that art = artefact must be set aside. In this sense, it surpasses a symbol and fulfils the criteria of a vision.
However, visions are vulnerable to reincorporation by the consensus they override. Duchamp's Fountain functions now as a symbol for modern art in general. Likewise, the innovations of computer pioneers are adopted as the universal platform on which future developments are built. A vision that is commonly understood is useful as a means of describing what a vision is, but the point at which it becomes readily comprehensible is where it has already lost its unique aspect. A vision that is easily understandable is one already digested by the consensus and which therefore symbolises something, rather than gesturing towards the new or unknown.
The prophetic books of William Blake, on the other hand, have retained their visionary significance over the course of two hundred years. These are a series of illustrated poems that dramatise Blake's spiritual ideas through a cast of mythological characters. These figures, the conflicts they enact, the principles they embody, are the products of Blake's imagination, described by some as amounting to a 'personal mythos'. The way Blake interprets experience is still widely at odds with the modern consensus, although in some respects he is closer to it than he was to that of the times through which he lived. Certainly, it is possible to read Blake's characters as symbolic manifestations of various psychological principles and processes, but the only source for understanding them on their own terms is still Blake.
If we consider Blake's prophetic books in comparison with other works in the epic tradition, such as Dante's Divine Comedy or Milton's Paradise Lost, these re-work mythological themes and figures from the established traditions of Christianity and classical antiquity. The imagination of Dante and Milton enables them to transform these themes into something unique, yet they abide very much in a relationship to the traditions within which they positioned themselves. Blake's work, although of smaller scope in many regards, is greater in others, because of the way he imagines 'from the bottom up'. Instead of placing himself inside a tradition and looking out from it upon experience, he attempts instead to build a new tradition of his own, and in the process thoroughly re-imagines the world.
But a word of caution is in order. In a vision, the consensus is re-imagined in order to allow new meaning to flow. Yet there are two other possibilities that may only produce the appearance of this: (1) that the consensus is not being re-imagined but bypassed, in which case the product will be nonsense; or (2) that the consensus is being denied, or that one simply lacks the mental equipment to hold to the consensus in the first place, in which case the product will be madness or stupidity. True visionaries are often accused of all of these. So too, unfortunately, are people who are simply nutty or dim. We must try to decide wisely in each case which we are dealing with.
In the same way that the vision might be described as a (non-consensual) version of the symbol, so our next species of transpersonal sign, the synchronicity, might be introduced as a transcendent version of the index.
The sign-vehicle of an index, it will be remembered, stands in an existential or causal relationship to its object. So too the sign-vehicle of the synchronicity, except it signifies its object in a non-causal manner.
The classic example of a synchronicity is the one used by Carl Jung to introduce the concept. A hyper-rational female patient was relating to him a dream concerning a golden scarab beetle (a symbol of rebirth). Jung opened the window, and a golden beetle flew into the room at this exact moment, of a species that was the closest thing to a scarab the climate of Switzerland allows. According to Jung, this blew his patient's mind. A psychological rebirth ensued in which she was able to let down her hyper-rational defences.
Jung's definition of synchronicity is 'an acausal connecting principle'. Jung is suggesting that the dream of the golden scarab was truly connected with the arrival of the beetle through the window. Not causally, of course, because dreams cannot cause beetles to appear; but nevertheless linked in a real sense. What this 'real sense' is would seem to have to do with meaning. In a synchronicity, it is as if meaning is the basis for things to happen in the world, rather than – as seems more usual – happenings in the world supplying the basis for meaning.
Whereas the sign-vehicle of an index points to a specific phenomenon within the world, what gives a synchronicity its unique sense is an impression that the world in a general sense is pointing back at us. Jung's patient, as does the subject of every synchronicity, regardless of its particular content, experiences the sensation that the universe is sending them a personal message. 'Look how what is most personal, private and innermost to you,' the universe says, 'is here affirmed by me; I, who ordinarily seems outermost and indifferent.' A synchronicity is a form of signification that demonstrates how the flow of meaning between sign-vehicle and object is not necessarily one-way. The object of the sign here speaks back to us through the sign-vehicle; the dream is verbalised, a golden beetle manifests in the consulting-room, and an actual rebirth takes place.
Synchronicities can arise in many contexts – for example: psychotherapy, religious practices – or in none. The synchronicity is especially strongly associated with magick. When a magickian performs a ritual, it is a synchronicity in which the result manifests, because a magickal ritual usually has no causal efficacy to produce a result. A magickian, or anyone else who experiences a synchronicity, is someone who has broken through to a certain level of meaning, someone who has succeeded in creating a certain type of sign.
The common factor in these experiences seems to be a certain re-focusing of consciousness. Personal messages from the universe are directed only at those who are open to receiving them. This re-focussing of consciousness might be described in terms similar to the 'bracketing' or epoché proposed by the philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), in which we aim to engage with only and exactly what we experience, 'bracketing out' any ideas or assumptions as to the validity or actuality of experience, or any reactions to it. This is a means of apprehending the mind that also forms the backbone of the technique of vipassana meditation, and other perspective-altering meditative techniques.
To recap: a symbol requires mind, because only a mind provides the cultural consensus that can map arbitrary sign-vehicles onto objects. To go beyond the symbol therefore requires usage of the mind in non-consensual ways. To have a vision, consensus is modified by imagination or other means. To experience a synchronicity, meaning is shifted into the register of an experience rather than an idea.
Our final species of sign ('final' in the sense that I have not encountered anything beyond it, or heard reports that there is such a thing) is the koan. It is somewhat like an icon, in the sense that an icon presents a picture or sensory analogue of its object. Yet whereas the icon possesses a form adequate to the task of representing its object, the koan draws attention instead to its manifest inadequacy.
The best-known example of a koan is that attributed to Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1768): 'You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?' The sign embodied by the words 'the sound of one hand clapping' is our koan in this instance. Because it is not possible to clap with only one hand, the sign produces a sense of paradox or confusion. Instead of conveying or clarifying a meaning, it halts the process of signification.
But this is only the prelude of the semiotic operation of the koan. In Buddhist traditions – particularly Zen – koans are used as a teaching tool for creating in students 'the great doubt' and leading them to satori, an experience more commonly translated by the term 'enlightenment' or 'awakening'. Just as visions and synchronicities convey us to particular transpersonal states, so does the koan. Its domain of operation is the full-blown spiritual experience, the non-dual state of consciousness.
It is mistaken to assume a koan has no meaning. The confusion that arises on encountering the koan is not to be taken for its intention or meaning either, but as part of the means by which it signifies. The sense of confusion, stupidity or nonsensicality arises because the sign-vehicle fails or refuses to point to a recognisable object, for in the domain of non-dual experience there is no distinction between subject and object.
Within non-dual awareness it is evident that the apparent distinction between subject and object rests on the assumption of a difference that cannot be found within the experience, except as the harbouring of an assumption. Whereas, in a synchronicity, meaning is apprehended as itself an experience – rather than somehow sitting outside of or transcending experience – and by this means the universe itself 'speaks' to us, in a koan this process is taken a step even further. Meaning itself is exposed as resting upon an illusion of separation between sign-vehicle and object. In actuality, there is no qualitative difference between them to be found within the experience of meaning. Once this is realised, the basis of meaning therefore falls away.
From this perspective we can see how a koan works, even if we have not personally encountered non-dual states of awareness. By presenting us with a sign that fails or refuses to point to an object ('the sound of one hand clapping), the koan provides a dualistic taster of non-duality, in which it is not that signs fail to signify (Zen masters are still fully capable of thought and speech), but in which the basis of meaning itself is whisked away and exposed as neither transcendent nor non-transcendent.
The perplexity we feel on encountering a koan is the effect of bringing to bear on it our dualistic expectations of meanings. Concluding that it does not mean anything, or that it is okay for it to mean whatever it means, are nevertheless attempts to pin it with a dualistic meaning. The actual intention of the koan is to deliver us to a state where there is no separation between signs and meanings. When this lack of separation is realised, the 'sound' of one hand clapping is indeed recognised.
Two hands clap because, being two, they can be brought into opposition, just as sign-vehicle and object can be brought into opposition to make meaning. But, as Peirce himself suggested, the effect of a sign, its interpretant or meaning, is not transcendental; it is itself another sign. So there is no meaning apart from signs, nor signs apart from meanings – they are all, at root, the same thing.
Other koans work the same way, and all koans point at the same object – or rather, the same object that is neither an object nor not an object. For example, another classic koan: 'Where is this?'
Ordinarily, this would be taken to mean 'Where am I?' – that is, 'What is the physical location in space of my body?' In which case, the answer would be any label we can give to that location. But once we explore its meaning more deeply, we start to feel unsettled by what the 'this' in 'Where is this?' can really mean. What is 'this'? Presumably it is the experience we are having right now. So the koan begins to take on the meaning of 'Where is experience?' Surely the experience is in my mind. Is the answer not, therefore, 'In my mind?' But where is 'my mind'? In my brain, presumably. If I pause and check, it might even feel like it is indeed inside my head. Maybe that is the answer: 'Inside my head'. But then, where is the feeling that 'this' is inside my head? Presumably that is inside my head too – in which case, what is the difference between 'this' (experience) and the place where 'this' is (in my experience)? It is starting to look as if they are the same. But how can that be…?
If we can work with the confusion, rather than recoiling from it or reacting against it; if we can see past the koan's everyday meaning, and let its nonsensicality seep deeply into us, finally we are led to a place where we experience directly that 'this' (our experience) has neither none nor any specific location, nor any claim to separation from the sense of 'me' or 'mine' that arises as a sensation within it. And by grasping the senselessness of the koan we suddenly wake up to the undefiled knowledge of exactly and precisely 'where this is'.
Eigen, Michael (2005). Psychic Deadness (London: Karnac).
Freud, Sigmund (1920). Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In: The Pelican Freud Library, vol. 11 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).
Jung, Carl (1952). Synchronicity: an Acausal Connecting Principle. In: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969).
Wilber, Ken (2013). Integral Semiotics. Accessed September, 2013.


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"Do we have to wait for Bolton to get here, or can we just start ordering appetizers now?"
This terrifying photograph of Steven Seagal and Carrot Top is courtesy of The Superficial. Now it's your turn.
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Kiefer has inked a 3 movie deal for a series of '24′ movies at Fox. Yep, three. Chances are, you'll see the first one going before-the-cameras as early as '07. [continue reading]
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Earlier this season, I couldn't get enough of AI. The freak-show part is great, but it's also great to discover singers who are really great, like Paris. But once they get beyond the auditions, it's just a bunch of somewhat talented singers singing cheesy songs. Where's the fun of that? It's like watching the girl who always sings Annie Lennox songs or "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" at karaoke. Sure, she sounds good, but what fun is it? Or maybe it's more like watching skinny Jared talking about Subway these days. He's a fine spokesman, but it's no fun unless he's holding up his fat pants. Anyway, I can't wait till next season.
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Dear Donald J. Trump,
While perusing the World Wide Web (Information Superhighway) today, I ran across an open letter you wrote to Martha Stewart, lambasting her low-rated, totally inferior version of your hit show, The Apprentice. Frankly, I couldn't agree with you more.
Martha's version of the show was a complete trainwreck, whereas your last season of The Apprentice was NBC's highest-rated show (behind E.R., My Name Is Earl, Las Vegas, Crossing Jordan, Medium and all three incarnations of Law & Order). Where does that glorified soccer mom get off blaming her own failure on a proven television genius like yourself, The Donald?

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I'm trying sweet peas, for the first time, this year. I have never had any problem growing edible peas, but I want to put sweet peas on the arches. Edible peas will be in separate areas, on expandable trellises...to keep nieces and nephews clear about which to pick and which to leave alone.
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First year for me. They're a spring bloomer down here. Speaking of edible peas ... I tried a small patch this year. Next year I'll plant more. We've been eating them as a fresh snack, but tonight I actually have almost 2 tablespoons to add to Crawfish Elegante. ;) |
I wintersowed the Everlasting ones, and I'm going to directly sow the...erm "regular" ones (can't remember what the variety is called). I don't know how well they're going to do here though, as the hot summers may kill them off. The Everlasting ones don't have a scent, but they bloom over a longer period, as far as I know. I'm using them to grow up the compost, and between two poles on my ugly shed. They disguise all sorts of ills! |
- Posted by quilt_mommy 5/6 Northeast Ohio (My Page) on Mon, Apr 4, 11 at 9:52
I am growing sweet peas again this year. Last year I only grew seeds that I had gotten from trade and I think they must've been duds because none of them ever germinated. This year I'm doing Burpee's Galaxy Mix and they are already sprouting for me, yay! I may rig up something a little different for them to climb on though, they didn't seem to like this tripod contratption much because they didn't get very tall - I'd say 4 1/2 feet maybe? I think I still may do a tripod but with chicken wire instead because they really seem to like to climb on that mesh kind of wire. I planted some violas and petunias around the base for a little extra color, and in my area, even though we have hot summers these really went for a long time. I don't think I ended up ripping them out until sometime in July. |
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Mon, Apr 4, 11 at 10:00
I try them most every year and have little luck. They sprout nicely but end up thin and sickly with only several blooms. I'm sure it's because I just don't have a spot with enough sun. The perennial sweet peas in the orchard have been there for so many years, I'm always surprised to see them return. Altho unscented, they are a pretty pale pink and have vigorous vines that climb right up and out of the tall weeds. Love your photo quilt mommy, convinces me to try again. |
- Posted by floridarosez9 10 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 4, 11 at 13:24
Once when we were kids (when Florida had a winter and spring), my dad dug a trench the entire lenth of our backyard and backfilled it 3/4 of the way full with cow manure. He planted sweet peas and as the vines grew, he kept filling the trench with more manure (sweet peas like their roots cool). The vines were at least eight feet tall and covered in blooms. I have pictures of my mom with armloads of sweet pea blooms, and we took them to our teachers at school in bouquets. Ever since I started gardening, I attempt sweet peas almost every year. I always get a few puny vines with a few flowers but nothing compared to the ones my dad grew that year. One year, I started them under lights in my living room in July because I heard they do better the earlier you start them. I had sweet peas crawling all over my livingroom carpet, but they didn't do any better outside. Sooner or later, I guess I ought to give it up. |
Hi Lavender, I grow them easily. I'm sure you know this already, but just in case, you have to soak the seeds overnight before planting out. I like to creaate a teepee made of bamboo andplant about 3 seeds per pole. The more the better - that is for me. and I like to create elaborate trellises using twine and bambbo sticks.. so the fancier - the better for me. and then next season I get to redo it all over again(yeepee) Altertnately, you could grow them with another tall growing annual - like perhaps a sunflower. Morning glory would have been too overpowering for these delicate vines. The sweet peas look fresh in spring but by summer, they start looking dull and old. I try to extend it's flowering season by removing seeds pods which does help. |
If you want to encourage bushiness in your sweet peas, you have to pick off the apical shoot when they really get growing. It makes all the difference between a lanky vine and a full one. pick the flowers constantly, they not only look great in a vase with roses or by themselves, but it encourages more blooms. If you use too much nitrogen fertilizer, it will encourage growth, not flowering in sweet peas. They do like rich soil, so I amend very heavily with compost before planting and then leave them alone. extend the flowering season by picking off seed pods. Happy growing! |
'....you have to soak the seeds overnight before planting out...' You can, but you don't HAVE to. I never do. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Mon, Apr 11, 11 at 19:32
Gorgeous picture of the Sweet Peas. I have never tried Sweet Peas but after reading this post and looking at the picture, I couldn't resist. I got four small packets of Sweet Pea seeds today and gonna plant them tomorrow. I bought Elegance Mixed Colors, Royal Blue, OLd Spice and Starry Night Sweet peas. |
Flora, it's just a method to get the peas growing faster especially since we have a shorter cool season here compared to the UK. |
- Posted by lavender_lass WA zone 4 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 11, 11 at 22:13
Thank you for the responses and very nice pictures! I didn't soak my seeds overnight, but I did soak them for half a day...but with all the rain we've had, I'm sure they're still soaking! :) |
half a day is good. The soaking just helps to loosen the outer coating and making it easier to revive the pea. You should start seeing flowers by next month. |
Does anyone grow sweet peas in hanging baskets? If so do you keep them trimmed down? I have some growing under lights right now, they are maybe 3 inches tall, and look like miniature asparagus. At what point should I pinch them back to encourage lateral branching? |
- Posted by calamity_j z7bc (My Page) on Wed, Apr 13, 11 at 8:58
I have some in a planter pot, and never end up doing anything with them(too busy buying/planting more plants!;) ), but right now they have come back again, and they are about 1ft high, they didn't even bloom last yr! I keep meaning to transplant them...maybe they will get moved this yr....I just can't resist a plant sale(local gardeners!) |
sweet peas will grow upwards and not dangle so are not good candidates for hanging baskets. |
I have 1 package of Sweet Pea seeds and a 6' trellis with a bit of netting to grow them on, in an area that pretty much gets sun all day long. Can someone please tell me what size pot to put them in and how do I sow the seeds? Thanks so much. |
They don't grow deep roots but from the perspective of having to water that pot consistently - I would suggest getting the largest pot you could find. Smaller pots do tend to dry out too quickly - especially in sunny locations. I might even suggest using those water retentive gels mixed in with the soil. Sow as if you planted them in the ground. Just follow the instructions on the package. |
Thank you ianna. So, would one package work say in a ceramic pot about 18" x 18"? I would definitely water it regularly. Maybe put some bark mulch around the top of the pot? |
Hmm. sounds okay. that's a good size. try the entire package and make sure theres enough space per plant. thin out as necessary. Instead of putting mulch which may encourage little creatures to hide underneat it (earwigs and slugs come to mind) use a saucer at the bottom of the pot to catch the water. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Mon, Apr 18, 11 at 11:32
I did soak my sweet pea seeds overnight and then planted them. I guess this should have been done earlier but I didn't even think of it in March. Will see if I have any sucess as I have never tried before. |
You should be fine. These are so easy growers. I've not yet tried any sowing since it is still cold up here. We had snow and later hail yesterday.. Ianna |
mandolls - about the pinching. I do it several times as soon as they start to have some true leaves. Mine were started indoors in a cold greenhouse in late January and have been out in the garden now for three weeks. They don't appear to have moved much but they will get going soon I am sure. We are having an unusually dry spring and I have actually had to water them a couple of times so far. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Mon, Apr 18, 11 at 17:01
I have grown regular eating peas and also Sugar snap peas. Both of which are easy. I am hoping Sweet Peas are just as easy. |
just as easy. just don't eat them because they are toxic. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Mon, Apr 18, 11 at 22:37
No, I wasn't going to eat them, just look at the pretty flowers :-)) |
Flora - thanks for the pinching advice. After ianna stated that they are not good for baskets, I double checked my info. I have started dwarf sweet peas fantasia mix, which are supposed to be good for trailing, and apparently more popular in the UK than here. Mine have 2-3 sets of true leaves now, so I will start pinching. |
- Posted by lynnencfan 7b/8aNC (My Page) on Tue, Apr 19, 11 at 8:59
This was beginners luck for me back in 2006 - I have NEVER been able to duplicate the show - must have been perfect conditions - I direct planted them in late January and I used bird netting as my trellis - had to pull them out in August but what a show I had that spring - smelled like heaven ..... Lynne |
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Tue, Apr 19, 11 at 9:41
Oh my gosh! What a beautiful sight, how I wish I could have that at least once. Your photo would make the prettiest greeting card, Lynne. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Tue, Apr 19, 11 at 12:03
Stunning! |
schoolhouse, you should be able to do this. Why not? mandoll I stand corrected as I didn't know of the dwarf forms. |
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Tue, Apr 19, 11 at 15:34
ianna, I don't seem to have the right spot for them - either there is too much shade or the soil is too thin and dry. I'll keep trying though, maybe on the bean trellis in the veg garden this year. Plenty of sun there with good soil. |
- Posted by lavender_lass WA zone 4 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 19, 11 at 15:40
Schoolhouse- My mom plants them in her veggie garden, on the arches, with morning glories. By the time the morning glories take off, they cover up all the old sweet pea vines :) |
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Tue, Apr 19, 11 at 19:22
Then I'd better be buying me some sweet pea seeds before all the nice varieties are gone. When I'll be able to get them in the ground is another thing. If it would just warm up a bit and stay that way for awhile. |
yeah It's been cold on my end too. I'm waiting for a good warming to start off the seeds. I get my sweetpeas from a company that sells heirloom seeds. Their plants are so fragrant and so bright. I was wondering about experimenting on sweet peas. Since they do well only in cool weather and start looking old by summer, I was wondering what if I plant them again in late august so that by sept and early oct. I would have flowes again? I just wonder. it may work.What do you think? |
Have any of you tried growing the perennial sweet pea? I did several years ago and they do great. But tend to reseed themselves quite abundantly. I have given seeds to many family and friends. They do tend to grow a large root mass after a few years. Ask me how I know? (tried to dig one up for my sister) We found out it is better to start them from seed than to transplant them. |
- Posted by lynnencfan 7b/8aNC (My Page) on Wed, Apr 20, 11 at 9:16
I love the pink flowers on the perennial ones but they are considered a weed down here and are very aggressive. I pull the vines out by the wheelbarrel load every spring - I think their roots go to China. I wish they had a scent but sadly they don't ..... Lynne |
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Wed, Apr 20, 11 at 10:12
I can find some nice heirloom sweet pea seeds at a local nursery. They order a rack of different varieties of flower seeds from Renee's Garden every year. It's such a chilly, drizzly day here today, perhaps a trip out there would cheer me up. |
- Posted by cindy(firstname.lastname@example.com) onMon, May 23, 11 at 10:38
wondering if anyone has had experience with the most fragrant sweet pea? Burpee lists one called ' high scent' I have little experience with growing them, but I am learning. Wonderful info on this blog, thanks to all! |
I'm trying some high scent this year, but they are not looking very promising. I'm hoping that one all this rain and overcast weather moves along I'll get some action from them. And I didn't think to pinch them, but thanks to this thread I will do that as soon as I get home from work today! |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Mon, May 23, 11 at 13:53
My sweet peas I planted have come up but they are tiny little things. At this rate they will never get to bloom! |
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Mon, May 23, 11 at 14:47
No such luck at finding the heirloom seed this year at the nursery, they've stopped carrying Renee's Seeds. :( Next year, I 'll order online. |
- Posted by olivia13043 Zone 7 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 14, 13 at 15:35
I bought heirloom seeds from Montecelo a few years back and they were slow to grow but bloomed last year so-so. This year the vines are wrinkled and appears to have mildew. Any help? |
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Fri, Jun 14, 13 at 18:57
Olivia, I replied to your post above about planting the Orchids for the first time and how well they are doing - so far. I did find them at Renee's Garden last Spring (of 2012). |
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Determined not get shortchanged when the Mattone Group builds an Olive Garden, Joe's Crab Shack and Texas Longhorn Steakhouse in the heart of Elmhurst, the Newtown Civic Association has proceeded to investigate the New York City Economic Development Corporation's contracts with the developer for the site between the Queens Center Mall and the Long Island Expressway.
"We are basically being cheated as a community and not compensated for the loss of our land," NCA Treasurer Robert Valdes-Clausell, who has been leading the civic charge, said at the group's meeting Monday night in Elmhurst.
Valdes-Clausell had filed a Freedom of Information Law request with the EDC and obtained some documents related to a settlement made on Feb. 6 that enables the Mattones to build the restaurants. He presented his initial findings at Monday's meeting.
The 99,200-square-foot parcel, formerly a city parking lot, was sold to Mattone for $2.2 million in 2001, despite the community's objections. The firm was to build a movie theater on the site in four and a half years, buy the crumbling Elmwood Theater on the other side of Queens Boulevard and donate the proceeds to the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens to build a senior center. The contract stipulated that if those conditions were not met, the city could buy the property back for $1. But none of that came to pass, and Mattone has been operating the lot for commercial truck parking in the meantime.
When the EDC issued an eviction notice to the firm on July 30, 2010 for failing to develop the property and violating the terms of the agreement, Mattone launched a lawsuit. While a judge ruled in the EDC's favor, Mattone appealed, and the parties reached a settlement for $3 million, as compensation for revenue the EDC would have received if Mattone had complied with the original deed.
The NCA denounced the settlement for completely neglecting the promises made to the community in 2001. The Catholic Medical Center's St. John's hospital closed and the Elmwood Theater was sold to the Rock Church. The settlement modified the deed to allow Mattone to build the three restaurants on about 26,000 square feet, stating that "NYCEDC has determined that it would fulfill a public purpose, further NYCEDC's organizational goals and would be in the best interest of the City of New York ..."
The minutes of the meeting of the NYCEDC board of directors from Feb. 6 indicates that the directors who approved the project did not know that the original deed included promises to the community. The meeting was held at the EDC's office in Lower Manhattan was called to order at 8:41 a.m. and adjourned at 9 a.m. Of the board's 27 directors, 18 were present at the meeting, although 10 were teleconferencing. In 19 minutes, the board approved the minutes of previous meetings, elected new officers; approved the sale of a lot to Flushing Commons LLC, the deed modification for the Mattone settlement and the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Lease Amendment; adopted a resolution on its mission statement, approved the previous items and adjourned.
Borough President Helen Marshall's appointee to the board of directors, Melva Miller, stated that "the Queens Borough President's office thanked NYCEDC for the hard work it had undertaken to bring this project to this stage."
However, members of the NCA and Community Board 4 were not informed about the restaurant plan until August.
"In the long run we're getting screwed, everyone in Corona and Elmhurst," Tom McKenzie, the president of the NCA, said Monday. "We had our say and the we were royally screwed by the politicians."
Another civic association, the Communities of Maspeth and Elmhurst Together, recently voted unanimously to support the NCA in getting compensation for the lost land.
"We clearly need a new police station," Valdes-Clausell said. "It's the top priority of Community Board 4. This would've been an ideal opportunity because the city would not have to take from individuals through eminent domain."
The 110th Precinct's station was built in the 1940s and, Valdes-Clausell said, still uses a 1940s switchboard. Aside from being technologically obsolete, it is located on 43rd avenue, a one-way street, where cars are often double parked, so response times throughout the Precinct, which covers Elmhurst, Corona, and all of Flushing Meadows Corona Park are slow.
As for the restaurants, all of which are national chains owned by an Orlando-based company, some members of the NCA do not think they will succeed.
"We're living in New York City, not Peoria, Illinois," Valdes-Clausell said. "We are living with culinary excellence."
Some however, such as Joe Bellaciccio, say the restaurants are a great idea and that they will "really enhance the neighborhood."
Valdes-Clausell said his recent attempts to bring the matter to the borough president's attention were rebuffed by an official in her office.
Dan Andrews, the spokesman for the Borough President's Office, said, "There is no role for us in terms of having a public hearing. This is something the developer is allowed to build. The EDC said they can go ahead and do this."
According to Carl Mattone, all necessary permits have been issued and construction has begun.
"Everything was done above board," Mattone said. "The project is going forward, it's as of right, and I have my permits."


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This is my third batch of mead (3.5 gal). The main one has: Approximately 10lbs of raw, local, wildflower unfiltered, unpasteurized honey. 2 cups of strong Barry's Irish breakfast tea A quantity of Barry's Gold blend loose tea (unsure how much). 1 1g dissolved vitamin C tablet. 1 packet of Montrachet red-star wine yeast Water enough to make up the difference. His little friend ( an experiment) has all the above plus: 3 bay leaves some powdered ginger 1 cinnamon stick some allspice berries 4 capsules of cranberry extract (gel cap removed) a splash of organic vanilla extract a splash of almond extract Oil of 3 capsules of black-currant-oil I know currant leaves were used in the past for nutrients and since my currant bush has no leaves being winter and all I tried using the oil from some gel caps. My first mead was exactly the same as the main one except for the 1g of dissolved vitamin C tablet. It was my favorite so far. At first I was gonna throw it out because it tasted so horrible but I let it age for 8 months and WOW what a difference. The tannins from the tea aged out and man it was yummy, there was so much tannins it tasted like whiskey before it mellowed. The second was JAOM but instead of bread yeast I used muttons ale yeast. It was good but astringent probably should have let it age longer and the clove about knocked me over. But oh well. //Now to the questions First Question: As I said this is my 3rd mead, but the other two did not have such a krausen, what would be causing it? Second Question: Also, I would prefer to not use any artificial chemical additives in my brewing/vinting ( I feel bad about using the vitamin C as it is). So, what are good food / naturally occurring things that I might be able to add to my future meads in place of "nutrients" or would my current strategy of honey,water,yeast,tea be sufficient? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Epimortum
I can answer your second question since i don't like adding artificial things to my mead either. I use lemons. I was told you can use oranges too the flavor will be different though. for a 5 gallon batch i use 3 lemons. I cut them in half and juice them, then add the juice and the lemons themselves to the must when i cook it. Yes i cook my must i don't boil i just cook it.
I wonder if it's just the tea leaves providing more detritus for the carbon dioxide to vent out of solution. The term for that escapes me at the moment. Cata-something?
I would pull those bay leaves. They have an overwhelming flavor if left in sauces, let alone months in a mead.
I have a rose hip and hibiscus tea mead that is doing the same thing.
Vitamin C is just asorbic acid. I don't add acid to mead, but I do for cider. to add tannins/acid I use english/irish breafast tea, and limes. Limes contain the most acid by weight of any fruit, and I find it leaving much less other flavors than when I've used lemons in the past. My usual addition for cider is the juice from 1/2 key lime per gallon.
Relax, don't worry etc. and so on.Primaries: Old Ale, Barleywine, ESB, Scottish 80/. Secondaries: Lime Wine, Strawberry-Banana Mead, Carmenere (from 144 lbs of grapes!), Engl. Barleywine, Modded JOAM, Concord Grape Pyment.Kegs: Choc/Coffee Stout, Saison, Dry Stout.Bottles: Belgian Str. Dark, Dubbel, Cider X 2, Modded JOAM, RJS Pinot Noir, RJS Aussie Cab. Sauv.Coming soon: Blueberry Mead.


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22 Healthiest Summer Desserts
by Toby Amidor in Cookies & Other Desserts, May 24, 2012Looking to keep your svelte summer figure? Here are 22 healthy and delectable desserts that have less than 250 calories per serving.
Fruity Treats
Juice and delicious seasonal fruit can help satisfy your sweet tooth and provide you with a burst of antioxidants.
- Balsamic Strawberries with Ricotta Cream (above)
- Banana Splits With Pineapple Brown Sugar Topping
- Grilled Peaches
- Grilled Stone Fruits With Balsamic and Black Pepper
- Honey Plums
- Berry Trifle With Amaretto
Frozen Indulgences
Cool off with frozen treats, many of which are made from seasonal fruits. It's a great way to use up extra fruit you have laying around.
- Italian Ice Pops
- Mango Strawberry Snow Cones
- Sliced Melon With Berries and Sorbet
- Strawberry and Mascarpone Granita
- Tropical Granita
- Watermelon, Lime and Mint Granita
- Basil and Lime Sorbet
- Blueberry Fruit Ice
- Watermelon Slushies
Baked Goodies
Cookies, cakes, tarts and brownies can fit into your healthy eating plan — choose any of these lighter recipes and mind your portions.
Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian and consultant who specializes in food safety and culinary nutrition. See Toby's full bio »
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In accordance with the Clery Act, the following information is provided regarding Baylor University's sex offenses policy, procedures, and programs. Baylor University policy prohibits students from engaging in physical abuse directed toward a member of the Baylor faculty, staff, or student body or toward a visitor to the campus. This policy is defined in the Student Disciplinary Procedure under Section III. Misconduct Defined at http://www.baylor.edu/student_policies/index.php?id=32401.
1. A list of the educational programs that promote the awareness of rape, acquaintance rape and other forcible and non-forcible sex offenses may be found on the Counseling Center's Web site under Sexual Assaults at http://www.baylor.edu/counseling_center/index.php?id=70837 and on the Baylor Police Department's Web site under Crime Prevention and Awareness at Baylor at http://www.baylor.edu/baylor_police/index.php?id=49077.
2. Should a student be the victim of a sex offense, the student should contact Baylor Health Services (254-710-1010), a local hospital, or the police. The Baylor Police Department may be contacted at 254-710-2222 or the Waco Police Department at 911. It may be important to preserve evidence for proof of a criminal offence so it is recommended that an alleged victim talk with police or health services personnel regarding the preservation of evidence.
3. If a student needs assistance in notifying police or health officials, contact the Baylor Police Department at 254-710-2222 for assistance.
4. Both on- and off-campus counseling and mental health services available to alleged victims of sex offenses are listed on the Baylor Police Department Web site under Student Options Following a Sexual Assault at http://www.baylor.edu/baylor_police/index.php?id=988 and on the Counseling Center's Web site under Sexual Assaults at http://www.baylor.edu/counseling_center/index.php?id=70837.
5. Options regarding academic and living situations after an alleged victim's sex offense are listed on the Baylor Police Department's Web site under Student Options Following a Sexual Assault at http://www.baylor.edu/baylor_police/index.php?id=988.
6. Procedures for campus disciplinary action in cases of an alleged sex offense may be found on the Student Policies and Procedures Web site under Student Disciplinary Procedure at http://www.baylor.edu/student_policies/index.php?id=32256. Disclosure of any disciplinary proceeding that is the result of an alleged sex offense is defined in the Student Disciplinary Procedure, Section I. General, Item F. at http://www.baylor.edu/student_policies/index.php?id=32399.
7. Sanctions that may be imposed following a final determination of a disciplinary proceeding regarding rape, acquaintance rape or other forcible or non-forcible sex offenses are listed in the Student Disciplinary Procedure under Section IV. Sanctions for Misconduct at http://www.baylor.edu/student_policies/index.php?id=32399.


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Hundreds of rare giant land snails held in captivity in New Zealand froze to death after the temperature probes in their containers failed.
A research institute has filed a lawsuit against its former employee, Judy Mikovits, who claimed to link a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome.
Scientists track changes in bacterial genomes during a hospital outbreak to discover potential pathogenesis genes.
The sickle cell anemia mutation may protect against malaria by preventing the parasite from sending dangerous proteins to the red blood cell surface.
High stress during fetal development could cause premature aging, according to a study in chickens, which published today (November 9) in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation is providing Vermont $1 million to help the state pay to repair damage from a series of unprecedented spring and summer floods that damaged roads across the state.
The Federal Highway Administrations Emergency Relief Program provides funds for the repair or reconstruction of some federal roads and bridges damaged by natural disasters or catastrophic events.
The three members of Vermonts congressional delegation praised the decision.
This is a much-needed infusion of federal funds to help towns throughout Vermont repair roads washed out by several storms this year, said a statement by U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernard Sanders and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch.
A presidential disaster declaration already has been issued for flooding in Chittenden, Washington and Essex counties between May 22 and May 26. The declaration means the state will be entitled to federal help recovering from those events.
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Disclaimer: Charterboat ownership isn't for everybody, and probably not for most people.
Charter boats are typically on a 20% down 15 year loan. I think it is fair to say that you will pay 20% of the total expenses over the life of the boat, including payments, insurance, moorage, etc. So, you are loosing money, but gaining equity. My Catalinas have appreciated over time, so that helps.
Important to note that this is not a tax write-off. It is a passive loss. You basically offset your charter income, so no taxes on the money you use to make your boat payments. You cannot write off the loss against your regular job without inflicting the wrath of the IRS. Mike Kimball is an excellent source (google him).
Think of charter boat ownership as owning a lot more boat that you could normally afford (paying 20% of the cost), and the boat working to make the other 80%.
Other folks play things differently - to each their own. Some friends paid cash for a boat, made improvements, and sold due to medical issues. They came out ahead and did a lot of good sailing in the mean time.
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It's a beautiful springlike day today. Just got back from a long leisurely walk with my dogs. It's only a mile, but my boys have slowed down a lot, they are 11 and 12 now and both have health issues. So it took us an hour. lol. Lots of sniffing and stopping and lolly-gagging.
Do you take Prancer out for walks much? It might do both of you some good!
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